Popular Music: Your absolute No. 1 all-time greatest Top Hit

[TSmoke 2]

One of my two favorite tunes is Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum. Sorry just can't pick one, the other is Chrissy Hyndes live version of Creep.

[Parky 8]

Just this.......

 

 

[Olham 164]

Wodin, this is what I get. Gawd!!! We Germans must be

the only big source of money for the music industry?

 

This video contains content from Believe,

WMG, INgrooves, The Orchard Music and EMI.

One or several of these partners have banned

this video fro copyright reasons.

 

And sorry, but please don't break the rule - otherwise we will

get flooded here with the top twenty or even more of everyone.

 

Carrick, your video is also banned for me.

Parky, yours was NOT banned - is he a loser?

Naw, just kidding. A country guy with such humour - is he Canadian?

Never heard such words from an American?

[Creaghorn 10]

there's really a ton of choices.

but if i have to choose, then i'll take this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKbPUzhWeeI

 

the current no.1 song of my 6 month old son btw is

 

 

[Olham 164]

Hahaha, that's a cute choice of your son, Creaghorn - good taste, little boy!

Well, and yours is definitely a classic, too.

[Guest British_eh]

Hi there,

 

OK, we've got some British content, that's good, so how about some Irish...................Van Morrison's "Moondance" . All my favorites are extended songs, more than the 3 minutes such as Neil Young's - Southern Man...oops, just a reference :)

 

Cheers,

 

British_eh

[+elephant 36]

Too difficult to chose only one but...

 

[Olham 164]

Yeah, "Van the Man" - got some of his records, too.

elephant, you Greeks seem to be pretty sentimental, could that be?

I got the old "Aphrodite's Child" stuff, and some of Vangelis - always very emotional.

[Lewie 7]

 

 

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Parky, yours was NOT banned - is he a loser?

Naw, just kidding. A country guy with such humour - is he Canadian?

Never heard such words from an American?

 

You haven't heard of John Prine? That song is great, one of the best he's done, a humorous song about an aspect of Jesus' life that is the cause of vociferous forum arguments that will stretch into the hundreds of posts. Everyone seems to be an expert on what Jesus was doing as a youngster.

[Dej 17]

Heh, me surfing the Morrisson wave (Jim AND Van), but this has to be mine. I love it, my mum loved it, my first wife and my present partner love it, each of my three children love it and so do all their tens of friends. Slap this on for a Summer barbecue and EVERYBODY is singing...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z7HLy-6SXk&feature=related

 

Brown-eyed girl, of course... and nice eye candy to boot (or is that BOOTS?) ;-)

 

Happy time tune par excellance.....

[ReDDoT 0]

Sade...Sade...Sade.......

 

 

 

[Olham 164]

Sigh! Dej and ReDDoT, yours are not available here...

[ReDDoT 0]

Sigh! Dej and ReDDoT, yours are not available here...

 

I can see Dej`s and mine :-)

My video song is from SADE "Kiss of Life"

 

Youtube :) Sometimes I can`t even watch the national geographics videos here in Norway...

 

 

[tranquillo 10]

Well, there's a first. Viewing Sade is blocked in UK. That's a shame because she provides quite a nice view.

[Olham 164]

Sade is the most beautiful sleeping pill I've ever seen.

UncleAl, now you really got me totally surprised, Sir!

Lennon's "Imagine" - who would have thought you came up with this song?!

[Dej 17]

I notice no one's posted anything Classical, which genre is an enduring musical love of mine, so if other peeps are having a second shot I beg Olham's leave to put up this one. For me, it's as one of the YouTube posters says... this is what love sounds like.

 

 

Not the best rendition I'm afraid but the best on YouTube. If you like it and would wish a definitive take look for the version by Richard Hickox and The Northern Sinfonia.

 

Bliss.

[Olham 164]

Dej, why not make a thread about the favourite classical piece of music?

[shredward 12]

ONLY 1 SONG EVERYBODY, PLEASE

 

I have often thought of starting this thread, but then I always found it almost impossible

to go for just 1 song (or instrumental). In different phases and moods, we may like different stuff.

But what the heck - no one would be angry, if you had a different selection next year.

 

I made my choice.

This song was played, when I had my very first slow dance with a (French) girl in a German-French

youth camp at the Bodensee. I remember, that it was the first time, when the combination of the scent

of a girls hair and skin, and a soft bosom pressed against my chest, caused something like an electric

red-out in my brain or godknowswhereelse.

 

That tune they played then was Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale"

 

OK, that's just weird.

Cause that's the first piece I thought of as well.

Either that, or Homburg, from the same album.

Many other possibilities of course : Layla and if I started to think about it, but that would turn me away from my beloved files.

But Whiter Shade of Pale was the first thing I thought of.

Perhaps because we both grew up in the same era, culture, and place.

Cheers,

shredward

[Olham 164]

"Homburg", "A Salty Dog" and "Whaling Stories" would all be great choices by that great

and so underrated band, Shredward. And you as a Canadian must be a bit proud of their

live-recording with the Edmonton Symphonie Orchestra & the Da Camera Singers", I bet.

For me the best work of a rock band together with an orchestra.

[Von Paulus 8]

Well my first LP, was Procol Harum Live with Edmonton orchestra. I was 7.

[Olham 164]

Funny, I just mentioned it the same minute! What a great first record to get!

Von Paulus and Shredward, we must be soul mates.

[Von Paulus 8]

For me the best work of a rock band together with an orchestra.

One of the best surely. But don't forget the Moody Blues, with the Days of Future Passed.

[Olham 164]

Yes, I have that one too; they were very nice - but Procol Harum were overwhelming.

Weren't they?

[steve58 0]

Definitely a hard choice, but if I had to pick one, it would be The Animals - House of the Rising Sun ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmdPQp6Jcdk

Edited March 17, 2011 by steve58

[tranquillo 10]

Eric Burdon - fantastic voice. Good band, good choice .